-THE PLAIN DEALER, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1981. Signoret is cast in I touching films Donna Chernin REVIEW "Madame Rosa," Simone Signoret pitayed a dying former French prostitute who now cares for the children of active French 'I Sent A Letter to My Love' prostitutes. Cedar-Lee Theater. In "I Sent A Letter to My Love," Signoret plays an elderly woman who has sacrificed lish when Gilles request a picture of his newmarriage to take care of her wheelchair-ridden found pen pal and later pleads to meet her. Most striking about their correspondence is Both movies share more than the same the way that the romantic fantasy enhances and A director (Moshe Mizrahi) and the same accom- expands their lives.
plished star Roth films reveal an uncommon Occasionally, the movie moves and tenderness, as well as the under- is because slowly. This theme about a human being's need for partly lives of the story explores the ordi- conlove. nary ordinary people. Considerable versation and action centers around eating "I Sent A Letter to My Love" is so touching meals and walking across the beach. and realistic that it frequently is difficult to hold back the tears.
The movie is at the Cedar- Yet, in these very commonplace events, Lee Theater. a poignant thread of emotions that run there is basic to the human experience. Based on an award-winning novel, this is the story of a sister Louise (Signoret) and her visits Their from ordered life is frequently interrupted brother Gilles (Jean Rochefort) who share a by a younger female friend, Yvette. relationship that is both comforting and suffo- a Delphine nervous and Seyrig repressed excellently woman portrays who, Yvette according as cating. While Louise sometimes resents Gilles to Louise, has read it seen it all and for acting like a child, she perpetuates the cycle knows nothing.
all, still often treating him like one. But when Gilles appears to be sick, Louise nearly panics. "You Signoret has several excellent sarcastic must not go away and leave me all alone." lines which expose the frustration and anger Partly out of her fear of loneliness, Louise that lies intermingled with her devotion. an ad for a refined gentleman through Rochefort, who usually plays comic roles, the personal columns of the local paper. Imag- here shows his dramatic skills as the romantic ine her reaction when she receives just one re- Gilles, whose "legs may be paralyzed but whose sponse, from her brother.
heart is free." Rochefort conveys the confusion -Gilles writes of his despair and his fear of gratitude and guilt he feels toward his that he may die before experiencing love in his But above all, the movie shines as a tribute life. Louise's own needs and craving for ro- to the superb multi-faceted portrayal by Signomance compel her to answer Gilles' letters ret, whose weathered but warm face registers a under an assumed name. She picks up her mail host of different emotions. at the post office under the dramatic name of One of the movie's many special charms, Beatrice Dechamp. besides its outstanding performances, is that A strange relationship begins and a series you really do wonder what the eventual outof predicaments crop up that are both funny come will be.
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